“As Jesus said repeatedly in the course of his active ministry, ‘some demons are only exorcized through fasting and prayer.’ Let’s fast, let’s pray and God the Holy Spirit will purify the Church and restore it to holiness and orthodoxy.” He urged his parishioners to fast and pray for 40 days. Paraphrasing Jesus in Matthew 12:43-45 ‘pray that this demon, once exorcized does not come back, after cruising the arid wastes, bringing with him seven more, making things even worse than before,'” he wrote.
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“So, ‘Thanks to be God!’ We find ourselves in a period of purification. He added that “these convulsions and this period of purification has been long overdue.”įather Kalchik twice referred to exorcism directly in this message. “As the events of the last weeks in August played out, the Church itself is going through convulsions of ridding itself of today’s Pharisees in the attempt to purify itself.” “Blessedly, the old Pharisees disappeared in due time, but lamentably, the twisted psychological Pharisaical dynamic, of putting on a show of being faithful, a pretense of the faith, in order to receive human adulation continues in this fallen world,” Kalchik wrote.
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His protest had more to do with the predatory priest scandal than the LGBT movement. The church bulletin for September 2 included a long message from the priest regarding Jesus’ denunciation of the Pharisees and calling the parish to fasting and prayer, explicitly citing Jesus’ explanation that some demons are only cast out by fasting and prayer. exorcist has decried the recent sexual abuse scandal as “demonic,” and Father Kalchik suggested as much in his announcement for the LGBT flag-burning event. To use the image of the cross as anything other than a “reminder of our Lord’s passion and death,” the priest explained, “is what we consider a sacrilege.”Ĭardinal Says Pope Francis Shouldn’t Get Distracted From Environment, Immigration By Sex AbuseĮxorcism has a long history in the Roman Catholic Church, and earlier this year the Vatican hosted a training in the practice of casting out demons. The flag in question melded a rainbow - meant to symbolize the LGBT movement - with a cross. “We put an end to a depiction of our Lord’s cross that was profane,” Kalchik further told NBC News. “We can confirm that the pastor has agreed not to move forward with these activities,” Anne Maselli, a spokeswoman for the Archdiocese of Chicago, told the Windy City Times. Kalchik said the archdiocese had told him not to burn the flag in front of the church. In this context, burning a symbol of homosexual “pride” is part of the broader “exorcism” of the sexual demons in the church. The priest argued that burning the LGBT flag has a particular resonance while the Roman Catholic Church is raked with the recent scandals of yet more revelations of sexual abuse carried out by predatory priests and covered up by higher authorities.
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“It’s our full right to destroy it, and we did so privately because the archdiocese was breathing on our back.” (Despite quoting Kalchik at length, NBC News made no mention of his own painful history as a victim of Catholic sexual abuse from predatory priests.) “We did so in a private way, a quiet way, so as not to bring the ire of the gay community down upon this parish,” Kalchik told NBC News.